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Definitions of tamerlane in various dictionaries:
noun - Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)
TAMERLANE - Timur (Persian: Temr, Chagatai: Temür; 9 April 1336 18 February 1405), historically known as Amir Timur and Tamerlane (Persian: Temr(-i) Lang, "...
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In 1402 Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I was captured in the Battle of Ankara by this conqueror from Samarkand |
The tomb of this lame Mongol emperor is a major landmark in Samarkand |
A poem by Poe purports to be the confession of this lame Asiatic conqueror, also a Christopher Marlowe subject |
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Timur (Persian: Temr, Chagatai: Temür; 9 April 1336 18 February 1405), historically known as Amir Timur and Tamerlane (Persian: Temr(-i) Lang, "Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror. As the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia, he became the first ruler in the Timurid dynasty. According to John Joseph Saunders, Timur's background was Iranized and not steppe nomadic.Born into the Barlas confederation in Transoxiana (in modern-day Uzbekistan) on 9 April 1336, Timur gained control of the western Chagatai Khanate by 1370. From that base he led military campaigns across Western, South and Central Asia, the Caucasus and southern Russia, and emerged as the most powerful ruler in the Muslim world after defeating the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, the emerging Ottoman Empire, and the declining Delhi Sultanate. From these conquests he founded the Timurid Empire, but this empire fragmented shortly after his death. * Timur was the last of the great nomadic conquerors of |